November 14th, 2011
Page 295
I don’t think anyone guessed monkey, popular scapegoats they are. I fudged the size relation on that first panel so you could see the monkey better, but he really shouldn’t be as big as he is next to those polar bears… but I’m sick and I’m not changing it. Sambit’s nose has been running for days now but he doesn’t seem sick otherwise. I guess he gave it all to me, whatever it is, and we’re desperately hoping the twins don’t get it :(
Oh and Steven has a fancy sock!
No vote incentive today due to migraine and the chills.
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November 14th, 2011 at 12:02 am
Aw, and ya had me goin’ to.
November 14th, 2011 at 12:12 am
Thought one died. They should be happy he lived…
November 14th, 2011 at 12:14 am
Nerd looks so guilty…
November 14th, 2011 at 2:08 am
Sorry but I forgot the name of the polar bear on the right top panel. What is he wearing anyway?
November 14th, 2011 at 3:29 am
axaxa nice :D
November 14th, 2011 at 5:11 am
Nope, did not guess monkey.
And I love how freaked out Nerd looks. And even Evil seems … concerned? Should be an interesting arc.
Interesting how Steven is just standing there. He doesn’t look angry or anything (okay, he’s a little “simple” but still – even a simple creaure would get angry at a limb being torn off). And is he thinking of eating the poor monkey?
November 14th, 2011 at 5:26 am
Yup. Thats is 295 comics. Straight.
I’m definetly going to have weird dreams now.
November 14th, 2011 at 7:16 am
Quite an interesting twist. And now they make the whole zoo turn on the bears for it all being their fault poor little monkey has to suffer?
Get well soon!
November 14th, 2011 at 7:52 am
Either those polar bears are very small for their species, or that’s a very large monkey! ;3
November 14th, 2011 at 7:54 am
Oh I just noticed his fake arm! I wonder what it’s made out of…
November 14th, 2011 at 8:12 am
Which one is Hulk and which one is Butch? :)
November 14th, 2011 at 8:21 am
Left is Hulk right is Butch?
November 14th, 2011 at 8:29 am
Aww. thats the first time ive ever been able to say that about a monkey. I really like the panel with all three of them in it. The polars that is.
Hope you get well soon! I had a recent neck injury that really put a damper on my day. Prozac amounts of prescribed meds fixed that one though!
November 14th, 2011 at 9:15 am
Wait… what.
November 14th, 2011 at 11:00 am
Oh geez! I really wasn’t expecting the sacrifice to be a monkey! Are they going to eat it?
November 14th, 2011 at 11:22 am
LeGASP. I really thought It’d be a bear, but it isn’t. :c I feel ashamed of myself. However, Steven does look pretty nice in panels 3 and 5, with his savagely-amputated arm c:
November 14th, 2011 at 12:40 pm
Hm. I can’t quite figure out Steven’s prostetic arm…it appears to be a lovely striped sock (as Alison mentioned), but is it strapped on? Poor Steven. And poor monkey! I guess the polars weren’t even in the bears’ habitat.
November 14th, 2011 at 5:28 pm
Eat the monkey Steven…don’t get that sock dirty. >:D
November 14th, 2011 at 6:58 pm
You know, folks, I’m beginning to suspect the author is prejudiced against primates. :)
November 15th, 2011 at 5:10 am
Wait… and where’s Gimp? I was hoping the “don’t mess wigh the Gimp” series will be as epic as the Tanked one, followed by a book! Alison? :(
November 15th, 2011 at 11:12 am
@Nonsens: It’s moved on to a new arc: Frosty Vengeance. c:
November 15th, 2011 at 5:31 pm
I noticed that this page’s characters weren’t shaded. Is that a bad thing?
November 15th, 2011 at 6:47 pm
Is it me or does that monkey look like the one Evil beat the crap out of with brass knuckles and then placed into the mustang in Lech’s mustang adventure?
November 15th, 2011 at 7:42 pm
I guess we should’ve known, how could they have guessed that it was Evil with magic voodoo dolls? The Monkeys seem to be the default group to blame after all, and why shouldn’t they be after what they did to Tank?
Looking at Stanley I get the feeling he and Tank would be good friends without the rest of the polar bears around to bully the other bears. He seems simple, cheerful, and only semi-aware of what’s going on around him. Much like Tank often. Speaking of which, where are Tank, Gay, Death, and Gimp if they weren’t captured?
Get well soon Alison, without my weekly dosage of cartoon bears I don’t know what I would do.
November 15th, 2011 at 8:04 pm
@Brian: I, too, am still concerned that we haven’t seen Gay, Tanked, Death and Gimp. Or maybe they’re just doing their own thing.
@Lemrez: All the monkeys look the same in Alison’s world! ;) Kind of like the cats in Pooch Cafe. http://thedailyfunnies.files.wordpress.com/2008/07/07-03-08-pooch-cafe.gif
November 16th, 2011 at 6:37 am
noooooo not the poor innocent monkey~!!!!!!
November 17th, 2011 at 10:06 am
Are the monkeys in this story similar to the rabbits in Open Season?
November 17th, 2011 at 5:05 pm
@Brian: I’ve been concerned about them since this page came out. Like Nicole said, this situation might be below them. They might not have even heard about it yet.
November 17th, 2011 at 8:41 pm
I’m not sure Evil looks concerned more like…intrigued? Curious even?
November 17th, 2011 at 11:56 pm
You used very few shadows on this strip isn’t it? it looks strange but in a good way :)
November 18th, 2011 at 11:00 am
I have been a regular reader for at least a year now. This is by far my favorite web comic. I suggest it to people all the time. So I was overjoyed to see that I could nominate this for best web comic of the year.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/comic-riffs/post/best-webcomics-of-2011-an-open-call-for-nominations/2011/11/17/gIQAuQiVUN_blog.html
Or email your suggestion to comicriffs@washpost.com
Thanks for all the great work Allison, hopefully we can get some more people in here to by stuff and support the cause.
November 18th, 2011 at 5:32 pm
I vote for bearnuts on topwebcomics at literally every opportunity. I suggest everyone else do he same.
November 18th, 2011 at 10:09 pm
@budle: Steven! Of the fancy sock arm Stevens. :)
@JoJo: I think my eyes would fall out.
@Nicole: it is strapped on, he was left with not even a nub to pull a sock onto :)
@Nonsens: it’s too soon for another long origin arc… and book three is not done yet because I don’t have the time to finish it.
@NoSignature: in my sick haze I turned off the shadow layer before I saved the web copy :P
@Brian: thanks!
@Sandra: I don’t know, did the rabbits get eaten or stuffed in cars?
@Bix: saving error, the printed page will still have them.
@MetaPope: thanks, I really appreciate it!
@Alexander: Awww, thanks muchly!
November 19th, 2011 at 2:33 pm
Screw size relation: His name shall be bob, king of the giant monkey people!
November 19th, 2011 at 2:35 pm
Or possibly the Almighty Tallest of the monkey people <__>
November 19th, 2011 at 3:36 pm
@Bridgebrain: Wonderful name! 8D Bob the Almighty, tallest of the monkey people…. Will now be put to death. C:<
November 19th, 2011 at 6:54 pm
Giant monkeys everywhere. This monkey is like kong only he’s not completely hideous to look at :)
November 20th, 2011 at 6:42 am
@Beta: ….Eheheh. /snickeragain.
..Gotta admit, Kong is extremely hideous, but I enjoyed watching him get beaten up by numerous things through DAT MOVIE….Which by the way is crap, man. No HD whatsoever.